News and Updates

Friends of LLELA Membership 2025

Become a Friends of LLELA member today for only $25!   Your $25 annual membership directly advances the Friends of LLELA’s Mission to support LLELA through hosting community events, funding research and restoration projects, and raising awareness of LLELA as an asset to the community.  Join here! Additionally, membership earns you a members-only invitation to

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Richard Freiheit: The Driving Force Behind LLELA

The class field trip to the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA) is always a highlight of training for the Elm Fork chapter of Texas Master Naturalists, with a tour of the facility including a walk into prairie land that has been in the process of restoration for almost 20 years. Richard Freiheit, Associate Director and Conservation Manager,

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Spring Full Circle Trail Run — April 12

LLELA FULL CIRCLE TRAIL RUN  Saturday, April 12 from 7:30 to 10 am  Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA, lee-lah) 201 E Jones St, Lewisville, TX 75057   This is Friends of LLELA‘s biggest live fundraiser of the year — please join us!  Trail runs include 5k, 10k, 13 mi, and 26 mi, plus Youth

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Lewisville ISD Plant-a-Thon at LLELA

A terrific Instagram post from Lewisville ISD:   In a partnership between Lewisville ISD, the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA), the City of Lewisville, the Army Corps of Engineers and the University of North Texas, 7th grade students in LISD have had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with prairie conservation efforts in our

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Just Dig It! Practical Ideas for Adding Native Plants to Your Yard – Jan 18 Sat

Just Dig It!  Practical Ideas for Adding Native Plants to Your Yard   Saturday January 18, 2025 9 am to 2:30 pm Lewisville Thrive, Dogwood Room 1950 S Valley Pkwy. Lewisville, TX 75067    Keynote Speaker:  Noted horticulture author Neil Diboll, owner of Prairie Nursery, consulting ecologist, and author of The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants, will present via Zoom: Prairie Garden Design

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LLELA volunteers are the best — our annual appreciation dinner

The annual appreciation dinner in November for LLELA volunteers was a blast. Joining the volunteers were various staff dignitaries, some bearing big news. But first the stats. From Erin Piper, City of Lewisville Outdoor Recreation Supervisor:  84 programs 960 participants 8242 hours of programming interacted, taught, and entertained 1906 children from the age of 18

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Elm Fork Texas Master Naturalists Annual New Class Visit to LLELA

The Elm Fork Chapter Texas Master Naturalists’ new 2024 class made their annual field trip to LLELA. Marissa Shaw, Field Trip Coordinator, filed this report: What a wonderful day it was at LLELA yesterday. Our Class of TMN- EFC 2024 were very impressed! Your team pulled together and did a fabulous job of presenting LLELA

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Welcome LLELA’s New Interpretative Park Ranger

There’s a new environmental educator at LLELA! And she’s a pelican! Well, maybe not. But interpretative park ranger Addy France is superb at getting kids excited about nature and the pelicans they might see on the Elm Fork. Please welcome Addy, who says “Speak for the trees and bees.” Photo by Sue Yost.

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